Erma Bombeck Quotes

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Erma Bombeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996

Topics

CoincidenceThanksgivingPrepareTake

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Joanne Harris

FatherMotherHomeSchoolStudent

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

Jenny Slate

SchoolMeHigh SchoolThinkBack

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy

ReligionDownPoorOriginalBeside

I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.

Dierks Bentley

FeelYouFeelingMarathonTellHigh

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

Dhani Jones

CreativityFootballI AmIdeasMore

I love green juices.

Doutzen Kroes

LoveGreenJuicesI Love

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

Bob Weir

GratefulNightThreeDeadSound

Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.

Brian Ortega

GoodMeEnoughYearTwoLarge

By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'

Tim Pigott-Smith

WorkTheatreEarlyActingFirstWho

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

Lionel Shriver

TogetherSingleAwkwardHePodium

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

Kirk Cameron

MarriageWifeGrowingImportantUs

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

Hillary Clinton

YouthVoteCaliforniaOhioWellDid

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